Last week Adobe broke the Internet. What they did was push an upgrade to their Flash plugin to version 10.3 that made it impossible to view and consume Flash content for Windows 7 + IE9 + Intel HD Graphics users!

This affected ~80% of the computers at Microsoft New Zealand.

See the screenshots below for what the NZ Herald site looked like for people after they upgraded Flash.

If you have been affected and you are wondering how to fix it you have two choices.